Timothy Horrigan's Online Writing Samples

Timothy Horrigan; September 28, 2008

[September 28, 2008] This is a list of writing and editing samples I submitted for a Web Editor opening at Linden Lab. I am pretty excited about the job, because it is pretty close to being the perfect gig for me.

I am slightly annoyed with myself because I attached the original version of this page as a file to the original email, rather than attaching it as a web page— which means I couldn't fix two or three things which needed tweaking (even though I spent about six hours working on my application.) I did tweak them here.

Second Life related:

A page about my "SesquiTammy" book and clothing stores:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/2ndlife.textbooks.html

The stores are located at:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amsterdam/186/99/26/

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/College Town/96/181/21/

I have been selling clothes and Second Life-related books through these outlets, as well as real life textbooks, using the Amazon.com affiliate program. I promoted the web page and my store using Google Adsense/Adwords placements targeted at the United States, Canada and the Netherlands (as well as Puerto Rico until I noticed an excessive number of non-productive clicks coming from that territory.)

An October 2007 article: "CSI Comes to Second Life":

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/2ndlife.csi.html

A brief blurb for Kelly Services's Second Life island (built by The Wishfarmers):

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/2ndlife.kelly.measuredprogress.html

This page gets a significant number of hits from people who know little or nothing of Second Life, since I have several links from pages related to educational assessment testing. (Kelly recruits test scorers for my former employer, Measured Progress, of Dover, NH.)

Two blurbs promoting land I bought from the Linden auctions. (I just barely broke even on these two projects):

• green mainland flat land in Jirasan... good to go!:

  • http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/real-estate/14720-green-mainland-flat-land-jirasan.html#post319213

• ZapZak land... several parcels:

  • http://secondsurvivor.com/SecondSurv/showthread.php?t=4048

Other Samples:

My 2008 Election page, promoting my candidacy for the NH House of Representatives:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/election2008.html

A page promoting my novel The Forgotten Liars:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/tammi1a.html

A press release for a 2006 Congressional Candidate forum in New Hampshire:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/dfa060202.pdf

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/dfa.060204.html

2006 letters supporting Carol Shea-Porter for Congress:

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/carol_shea_porter_letters.0608.html

February 26, 2008 DailyKos Diary about Net Neutrality:

• http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/26/104622/007/405/464366

My Amazon.com Spotlight Reviews of Anatoly Fomenko's "History, Fiction or Science?" (vol. 1 & 2)

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/fomenko.review.html

Estimated Snow Parameters for Vehicle Mobility Modeling in Korea, Germany and Interior Alaska: CRREL Special Report 95-23:
with Roy E. Bates (US Army Cold Regions Lab, 1995)

• http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/techpub/CRREL_Reports/reports/SR95_23.pdf

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/documents/SR95_23.pdf

Web Videos:

These short videos were created using found footage and iMovie.

"The Secret Life of Brittany Murphy"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-w705e3rFE

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/brittany-murphy-video.html

"LolliBank" aka "It's Not the Money Man" aka "Citizens Bank"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wa7_kP42K8

• http://www.timothyhorrigan.com/videos/not-the-money-video.html

(This is the end of what I emailed Linden's recruiters.)

  A revised and slightly updated version of this page can be seen at:

See Also:

• My home page

• My novel The Forgotten Liars

• My Second Life page

• SecondLife.com